Marie Magoon, Spencer Jordan trial: Medical examiner cross-examined
Meika Jordan's bruised and battered body was of one of the worst cases of child abuse a 25-year veteran medical examiner has ever seen, according to his testimony today.
Dr. Chris Milroy's testimony continued this morning at Meika's father and stepmother's first-degree murder trial.\
Spencer Jordan and Marie Magoon are accused of beating Meika to death in Nov. 2011.
Milroy told Justice Rosemary Nation today that Meika's injuries were consistent with being abused and was one of the most severe cases he's ever seen.
"[Meika had] multiple injuries of different types at different times over multiple areas of her body combined with major injuries to her organ system."
The two injuries that caused Meika's death according to Milroy were the tearing of her pancreas caused by a kick or punch to the stomach and five blows to her head which caused her brain to swell.
In his testimony yesterday, though Milroy said he identified more than 40 bruises, abrasions and other injuries suffered by the child.
Under cross-examination, though Jordan's lawyer Mitch Stephensen asked Milroy if two people inflicted similar blows to Meika at different times whether or not there would be a way to prove who caused the fatal injuries. Milroy said there was no way to know.
Magoon and Jordan were arrested about a year after Meika died following an undercover operation, during which each made admissions about their involvement in Meika's death.
The prosecution will seek to have that evidence admitted in the trial beginning tomorrow with one of the undercover operators.
